Systemic Wegener's granulomatosis with severe orbito-ocular involvement

Singapore Medical Journal

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Chua, J ^a   Lim, Li ^a  

^a SINGAPORE NATIONAL EYE CENTRE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Anterior necrotising scleritis; Orbital inflammation; Peripheral ulcerative keratitis; Wegener's granulomatosis

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DEXAMETHASONE; LEVOFLOXACIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; NEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC ANTIBODY; PREDNISOLONE; PREDNISOLONE ACETATE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONJUNCTIVAL HEMORRHAGE; CORNEA NEOVASCULARIZATION; CORNEA ULCER; DISEASE SEVERITY; EYE EXAMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IRIDOCYCLITIS; ISCHEMIC OPTIC NEUROPATHY; KERATITIS; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG NODULE; MALE; NASAL BIOPSY; ORBIT APEX SYNDROME; ORBIT DISEASE; SCLEROMALACIA; VASCULITIS; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

ANTIBODIES, ANTINEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC; CORNEAL ULCER; EYE; EYE DISEASES; FIBROSIS; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INFLAMMATION; ISCHEMIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPTIC NEUROPATHY, ISCHEMIC; SCLERITIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

EID: 54949141108     PISSN: 00375675     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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